kehyillä

Kehyillä is a Finnish grammatical form: it is the adessive plural of the noun kehys, which means frame. In Finnish, adessive marks location or relation to a surface or object, and kehyillä specifically means “on the frames” or “on the frames” when referring to more than one frame. The singular adessive form of kehys is kehällä, while the plural form is kehyillä. As a locative case form, kehyillä is used with verbs that describe location or placement, such as olla (to be) or asettaa (to place).

In practice, kehyillä appears in descriptions of artwork, displays, or constructions where something is positioned with respect to frames. It can indicate that an item is situated on top of or supported by frames, or that something is presented within framed boundaries. The form is common in descriptive or instructional Finnish, for example in texts about galleries, museums, or framing of pictures.

Example sentence: Kuvat ovat kehyillä. Translation: The pictures are on the frames. This illustrates a straightforward locative use where something is positioned relative to frames.

Relation to related terms: kehys refers to a single frame, kehykset to multiple frames, and kehyillä is the locative plural form used to describe location or placement on frames. The concept is a standard part of Finnish grammar and does not constitute a separate semantic field beyond its locational function.

See also: Finnish grammar, adessive case, kehys, kehykset.